I re-installed WinXP Pro the other day and it no longer detected my 2nd hard drive (80G). My Computer showed the C - 40G drive and Z - Partition (RAID 1+0 - Stripe non-physical drive). Believing that RAID was the problem, I installed again without installing the RAID drivers, that didn't work...it was still there. Then, I tried to erase the RAID ARRAY in the startup utility, the array just re-configured itself. Last night I installed Partition Magic to see what it could do, after reboot, my 80G drive showed back up (WTF-?). It is however in Disk Management & PM broken into two dynamic drives (see link below, referring to Disk 3 & 4). I also created almost 40G unallocated space also- I don't know how to get rid of that. PM Screenshot: http://www.qwlproductions.com/issues/ So, I am looking for a way to utilize my 80G drive, and the C drive - no dynamics...just plain old usage without losing the material on the drive. Can I do this without removing RAID? If not, how do I get rid of RAID. Can Partition Magic help me some how in the process? Thanks very much!

according to your picture post you don't have hardware raid engaged. you could not have been doing raid 0+1 since it requires 4 disks. you have one 32gig and three 38gig drives. see here for a clarification of raid 0+1 http://www.acnc.com/04_01_0_1.html Partition magic can't help you with raid or dynamic disks. What I think you had was c: with the 32gig drive and you did Raid0 with the 3 38gig drives. FYI you have no fault tolerance with raid0. backup your data regularly or be prepared to lose it all. What I would recommend is delete the two dynamic volumes so they look exactly like disk 2 which is unallocated. Go back into the hardware raid array bios and configure those drives back as raid0. Then go into Disk Manager and make a simple volume and format it as ntfs. This should put you back to the way you were before the reinstall. Golly gee wilerkers everyone. Learn to Internet Search